Individual Boy Scouts California record

(the photo above is of a Scout signaling during Operation On-Target on top of Mount Baden Powell in California - photo courtesy of GD Palmer)

OPERATION ON-TARGET is a Varsity Scout high adventure activity scheduled annually for the 3rd Saturday in July &/or September (Arizona & New Mexico hold their Operation On-Target event on the 3rd Saturday in September and southern California participates in both July and September. Varsity Scout teams (or anyone interested in this event) will choose mountains (or other elevated places) to climb. From there they use mirrors to signal each other. They talk to each other with ham radios or cell phones. They plot these contacts on a map.

OPERATION ON-TARGET provides your team with an activity as easy and relaxing as setting mirrors up in a park or a parking lot (with a bucket of chicken for lunch) to signal the nearby mountain tops - or as strenuous as a week-long wilderness excursion to reach a mountain peak no one has ever signaled from before, topped off with a Sunday worship service in God's great outdoors. ON TARGET is remarkably flexible. It can be tailored to fit every teams needs, resources, and demands.

OPERATION ON-TARGET can be as difficult or as effortless as you and your team make it. You can drive, ride an elevator to the top of a tall building, walk, hike, ride mountain bikes, ride horses, do a technical climb with ropes, or rent a helicopter to get to your chosen site.

OPERATION ON-TARGET is: Advancement, Service, Special Programs & Events, High Adventure, and Personal Development. It fits all or part of 37 different merit badges. Service project opportunities abound (i.e. cleaning or improving the trail to your peak, camp area, planting trees, or some other forest service recommended project). Make a movie or slide show. ON TARGET is high adventure, and finally, no one can participate without developing personally.

OPERATION ON-TARGET is setting a distance record for signaling between 2 peaks (the current Sept. 2012 Varsity record is 179.9 miles between Hayden Peak AZ and San Gorgonio Peak CA) or perhaps surpassing the 1988 border to border record for Scout units signaling from near the Canadian border to near the Mexican border in a chain of mirror flashes from peak to peak (see the

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